Work will begin soon on new repeater site. Still need equipment for 2M Repeater!
With cooler weather just around the corner will FINALLY get back to work on the Repeater site, the last time it was cool, it was also flooded, then it went almost immeadiately from 70 degrees with storms and flooding to 100+ heat and drought. Will update in September on Construction.

Waller CRC still needs equipment for the 147.040Mhz 2 Meters Repeater. Moving the UHF repeater to the new site this Fall, would be nice if we could setup the 2M repeater at same time. If you have VHF Repeater equipment you could donate or sell for reasonable cost, please contact kf5jmd@wallerrepeater.org.

New Site for Repeater coming finally! On a hill on taller tower, more details to come, this should be completed within the next 2-3 months and should greatly improve the coverage area of the Repeater.

(07/2014)

This Repeater is currently live, on the air. There are upgrades planned, such as a new tower to raise the antenna height to around 80 feet AGL. It is currently at 50 feet AGL.

Purpose and Goal:

The KF5GXZ Repeater's purpose is to provide the fast growing Waller County Community Licensed Amateur Radio Operators with a useable Repeater, located Centrally in Waller County as to permit communications County-Wide with minimal station requirements to access the Repeater. To allow Base, Mobile, and Handheld access from anywhere or almost anywhere in Waller County.

Goals for this Repeater are to continuously provide Amateurs with a "local" repeater. This repeater has Emergency Power and may be used for Emergency Communications. Future plans include to add capability to link to IRLP and/or other repeaters via Internet or by Radio. Affliation with ARES and Skywarn will likely be in the near future.

This is an "Open" Repeater, On Air 24/7 unless Maintenance is in process. Any Licensed Amateur is welcome to freely use it for "Ragchew", Technical Info/help, and General Communications, at any time unless otherwise directed "On Air" by a Repeater Trustee or Net Controller. Please be courteous to other users of the Repeater, and follow all Guidlines for Amateur Radio Operation.

Coverage is somewhat limited only for handheld radio users at the current antenna height and should increase greatly once construction of the new tower is completed. Mobile and/or base stations will find coverage over all of Waller County and part of surrounding counties.

The coverage map below estimates "10 Watt Mobile Radio" coverage, some testing has been done to verify this. 50 Watt Mobile Stations will find much greater coverage than indicated by this map. HT (handheld) coverage will be about one-half to two-thirds of the blue shaded area. In the center of the blue shaded area, (near Bell rd) is the location of the repeater antenna. The blue shaded area is a 15 mile Radius from the Repeater Antenna. 50 Watt Mobile testing has been sucessfully done to 705 Mile Marker (Colorado County) on I-10, Brenham, Cypress, Katy, and Navasota. Results may vary depending on propagation and your antenna configuration, Comet SBB-7NMO antenna / Kenwood TM-V71a Transceiver and others, have been used for these tests.